Harper's Magazine: September 1962

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September 1962

CONTENTS
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6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Man on a road, from March 1962: Letter By “The Editors” On A long and happy life, from April 1962: Letter By “The Editors” On Paul loves Libby, from June 1962: Letter By Beatrice D. Price Letter By “The Editors” On A new weapon to get better TV, from July 1962: Letter By Brooks G. Leffler On On magnanimity, from July 1962: Letter By Helen Rand Miller On Car snobs, commuters, and chaos, from July 1962: Letter By Kenneth E. Pfitzenmayer Letter By Mark A. Lillis On That Mrs. Stevens, from July 1962: Letter By John B. (John Bertram) Oakes On The genteel nightmare of Richard Rovere, from August 1962: Letter By Richard H. Rovere On What the Negro needs most, from July 1962: Letter By Jr. and Whitney M. Young Letter By Lawrence M. Herman Letter By Charles Herbert Stember Letter By Jr. and Harry A. Bailey Letter By John Oliver Killens Letter By “The Editors” PDF IMAGES
14-24	The editor's easy chair/Article The stupidity problem By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Economic development; Intelligence levels; Labor market; 1961-1971; Sociological aspects; Unemployment PDF IMAGES
24	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
26-29	After hours/Article Channel 13 in biz By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Career as general manager of Channel 13; Heffner, Richard D.; Television in education; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article Terror in Vietnam: An American's ordeal at the hands of our “friends” By Stanley Millet SEE ALSO: Career as Vietnam president; Ngô, Dình Diêm; Personal narratives, American; Political persecution; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
38	Poem For the love of dying (Mexico 1936-37) By Malcolm Lowry PDF IMAGES
40-42	Article Shall we let Buckley into the establishment? By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Elite (Social sciences); 1945-1989; Political leadership; Right and left (Political science); Views on political leadership; Buckley, William F. (William Frank) PDF IMAGES
43-46	Fiction The danger in the house By James Thurber PDF IMAGES
47-54	Article Dead horse and the featherbird: The specter of useless work By Paul Jacobs SEE ALSO: Air pilots; Printing industry; Trade-unions; Wages and labor productivity PDF IMAGES
55-61	Article East Africa . . . the birth pangs of independence By Edward R.F. Sheehan SEE ALSO: Africa, East; Career as Tanganyika prime minister; Career in Kenya politics; Kenyatta, Jomo; Nyerere, Julius K. (Julius Kambarage); Kenya; Pan-Africanism; Tanzania; To 1963; Mboya, Tom PDF IMAGES
62-65	Article Schizophrenics in the sun By Robert Littell SEE ALSO: Psychiatric hospitals; Schizophrenics; Social psychiatry; Sociological aspects; Stockholm; Sweden; Swedes PDF IMAGES
66-75	Article Elia Kazan's great expectations By Thomas Bruce Morgan SEE ALSO: American drama; Career as Lincoln Center repertory theater director; Kazan, Elia; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, New York); Portraits; Production and direction; Repertory theater PDF IMAGES
74	Article Box office poison? SEE ALSO: Career as motion picture director; Film and video adaptations; Ainsworth, John; Motion picture audiences; Motion pictures and theater; Othello (Motion picture); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
76-87	Article Texas politics in turmoil By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in Texas politics; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Yarborough, Don; Governors; Connally, John Bowden; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1951-; The Republican Party; Blakley, William PDF IMAGES
88	Poem The cat By Hill Pati PDF IMAGES Poem The dormouse By Hill Pati PDF IMAGES Poem The death of a mole By Hill Pati PDF IMAGES Collection Animal poems By Hill Pati PDF IMAGES
89	Poem Helpful hints wherever you travel By Hill Pati PDF IMAGES
92-95	Article Living with your husband's coronary By Terry D. Allen SEE ALSO: Coronary heart disease; Diet therapy; Diseases; Heart; Husbands; Patients; Rehabilitation PDF IMAGES
95	Poem The temptation By Walter Arnold Kaufmann PDF IMAGES
98-106	The new books/Review The breakup of the tribe By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Moorehead, Alan; Before my time (Book); Blanville, Brian; Parkinson, C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote); Turnbull, Colin M.; Diamond (Book); Sewell, Elizabeth; Russell, Francis; In-laws and outlaws (Book); Yaffe, James; Weidman, Jerome; Mister Margolies (Book); Tucci, Niccolò; Now bless thyself (Book); The Blue Nile (Book); The lonely African (Book); The sound of bow bells (Book); Tragedy in Dedham (Book); Two brothers (Book); Pratolini, Vasco PDF IMAGES
106-109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: MacLean, Alistair; Rives, Anne; Coxe, George Harmon; Marta (Book); Mission of fear (Book); Balchin, Nigel; Highsmith, Patricia; Packer, Peter; Celletti, Rodolfo; Seen dimly before dawn (Book); The cry of the owl (Book); The golden rendezvous (Book); The incident (Book); The love thieves (Book) PDF IMAGES
109	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Spock, Benjamin; Ehrlich, Blake; Snow, Edgar; Schur, Edwin M.; Hofer, Evelyn; Herzog (Book); London perceived (Book); Narcotic addiction in Britain and America: the impact of public policy (Book); Paris on the Seine (Book); Problems of parents (Book); Red China today (Book); Bissell, Richard Pike; Bellow, Saul; Jackson, Shirley; The pyramid climbers (Book); Pritchett, V.S. (Victor Sawdon); Packard, Vance Oakley; We have always lived in the castle (Book); You can always tell a Harvard man (Book) PDF IMAGES Notice The American female By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers; “The American female” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
110-112	Music in the round/Review Light words and light music By Discus SEE ALSO: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Gilbert and Sullivan: Patience (Sound recording); Gilbert and Sullivan: Trial by jury (Sound recording); Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; Hollreiser, Heinrich; Strauss, Josef; Pro Arte Orchestra; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Strauss: Zigeunerbaron (Sound recording); Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck) PDF IMAGES
111	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Davis, Colin; English Chamber Orchestra; Schubert, Franz; Mozart: Divertimento in F (K. 247); Divertimento in D (K. 251) (Sound recording); Schubert: Piano trio in E flat, op. 100 (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
112	Jazz notes/Review Pre-swing By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Distinguished dance arrangements by Ray Noble and his renowned London Mayfair Orchestra (Sound recording); Jazz; 1961-1970; Noble, Ray PDF IMAGES